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U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia
Title: Managing Diversity of Senior Leadership in the Federal Workforce and the Postal Service
Date: 4/3/08
Time (EST): 2:00 PM
Place: Rayburn House Office Building, Rm. 2154
The Senate Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia and the House Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia will hold a joint hearing. The hearing will examine diversity in the Senior Executive Service (SES) of the federal government and S. 2148/H.R. 3774, the Senior Executive Diversity Assurance Act of 2007. The Government Accountability Office will present findings from its ongoing report evaluating diversity in the SES, and the Office of Personnel Management will discuss its efforts to improve the diversity of the SES. Also, the hearing will examine diversity in the senior ranks of the Postal Career Executive Service, and the equivalent career executive positions in the Postal Regulatory Commission, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the U.S. Postal Service Office of the Inspector General.
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Member Statements
    Senator Daniel K. Akaka   [View PDF]
 
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Witnesses Testimony
 
Panel 1
  Ms. Nancy Kichak [View PDF] , Associate Director and Chief Actuary, Strategic Human Resources Poilcy Division , U.S. Office of Personnel Management
  Ms. Susan LaChance [View PDF] , Vice President of Employee Development & Diversity , United States Postal Service

Panel 2
  Mr. George H. Stalcup [View PDF] , Director of Strategic Issues , United States Government Accountability Office
  Ms. Katherine Siggerud , Director of Physicial Infrastructure , United States Government Accountability Office

Panel 3
  Mr. Steven W. Williams [View PDF] , Secretary and Chief Administrative Officer , Postal Regulatory Commission
  Mr. Ronald Stith [View PDF] , Assistant Inspector General for Mission Support , United States Postal Service, Office of Inspector General
  Ms. Nicole A. Johnson [View PDF] , Assistant Chief Inspector Investigations and Security Support , United States Postal Inspection Service
  Mr. Bray Barnes [View PDF] , Acting Chief Human Capital Officer , Department of Homeland Security
  Ms. Carmen Walker , Deputy Officer , Office for Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, Department of Homeland Security

Panel 4
  Mr. William Bransford [View PDF] , General Counsel , Senior Executives Association
  Mr. William Brown [View PDF] , President , African American Federal Executives Association
  Ms. Rhonda Trent [View PDF] , President , Federally Employed Women
  Dr. Carson Eoyang [View PDF] , Executive Director , Asian American Government Executives Network
  Mr. Jose Osegueda [View PDF] , President , National Association of Hispanic Federal Executives
  Ms. Darlene Young [View PDF] , President , Blacks in Government



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Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
340 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510